This week hasn’t been a bad week for reading. I managed to complete my reading of Bram Stoker’s Dracula and began reading Plato’s Republic. This evening I managed to get through the introduction and plan on beginning reading the actual work this upcoming week. I think Republic will take a bit longer to read than [...]
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My Thoughts on Dracula
I just finished Dracula a little more than an hour ago, and I must say, how FANTASTIC the book is! I can’t believe that I didn’t/wasn’t able to read it sooner! From the writing style, to the characters, story, etc. Previously I wrote about how readers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries would [...]
Wednesday Update
Wow! What a quick beginning of the week! As I’ve indicated in previous posts, I’m currently reading Bram Stoker’s classic Dracula. I’m finding that I’m immensely enjoying it so far! As of this writing, I’m on chapter fourteen. I can definitely see why readers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries would find this [...]
Week In Review
This week has been a particularly good reading week for me. This week I managed to complete reading The Essential Tales & Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, and The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown. I was actually able to read all of The Lost Symbol on Friday and Saturday morning due to me being off [...]
Now Reading Dracula
It’s now back to our regularly scheduled reading of classics! Next up in Bram Stoker’s Dracula. My wife has really been into Stephanie Meyer’s Twilight series, and while I was teasing her about it, I came to the realization that I had not yet read Dracula! I figured, that while I was lovingly teasing her [...]
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- Book #13 – Agatha Christie’s The Murder of Roger Ackroyd | Beltwayliterature [...] completing my reading of The Secret of Chim
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Beltwayliterature Same here! I really enjoyed reading Candide!
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Beltwayliterature There were some parts that were funny, and you
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Rachel Bradford I got SO many laughs out of Candide! I wasn't
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Rachel Bradford Too bad you didn't like it. I found it rather

